Partner Profile

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Description

Halon is the scriptable SMTP (email security) software that provides anti-spam, routing, API integration, task automation, encryption and signing for today’s businesses. Halon’s SMTP email security software is now available on the CenturyLink Cloud Platform for customers to download and install. This article is to help end-users to quickly take advantage of this integration to maximize their investment and immediately protect their infrastructure.

Solution Overview

Halon’s scriptable SMTP software is designed to give each business to have a full range of solutions to managing business email. Customers find savings through a reduced need for servers and hardware as well as by nearly eliminating task management through automation features. In addition to this customers can leverage Halon’s expertise and best-in-class service to its customers.

Offer

The end-user initiates their relationship with Halon through their CenturyLink Cloud account but pay for their services directly to Halon on a monthly basis. This Virtual Appliance, called a Partner Template, is deployed to your CenturyLink Cloud account via a Service Task. Although Service Tasks are ordinarily billed to the end-user’s account, CenturyLink will provide a refund for costs associated with the Service Task for deploying the Partner Template. Please follow the process below to request credit. In order to purchase your license (AKA entitlement), please email [email protected] or click here for a list of international contacts for Halon Security Sales.

Audience

CenturyLink customers that manage an email infrastructure.

Impact

After reading this article, the user should feel comfortable getting started using the partner technology on CenturyLink Cloud. After executing the steps in this document, end-users will have a functioning and more-secure email infrastructure.

Minimal System Requirements

Halon’s end-user console is a browser based portal and does not require extensive system resources to operate. The Halon email gateway software is highly efficient, and can handle incredible amounts of e-mail traffic. For performance benchmarks and optimizations, please see http://wiki.halon.se/Performance.

Accessing and Configuring your Halon virtual appliance

Once the Service Task team deploys your virtual appliance, you will get an email notification with details on your new devices. Follow these instructions to access and configure your virtual appliance:

Add a public IP to the virtual appliance and open the following ports:

HTTPS (443) for management

single port TCP 25 (For SMTP traffic)

(optional) SSH/SFTP (22) for management over SSH

Connect to the public IP over HTTPS using your web browser.

You will now be presented with a login screen, use the default admin/admin credentials to login.

Process to request credit for Service Task fee

TO: [email protected]
EMAIL SUBJECT: Requesting Credit for Halon Partner Template Deployment
CLC Ecosystem Team,
I am requesting a credit be placed on my account to cover the fees associated with deploying the Halon Partner Template to my account under the Service Task deployed on MM/DD/YYYY. My CenturyLink Cloud username or account alias the credit needs to be placed on is ######
Thank you very much, your_name_here